The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

This view is prevalent amongst Reformed Baptists, those in the Founders movement ( a Calvinistic movement within the Southern Baptist Convention ), some Primitive Baptists, Strict Baptists, and several individuals in other Baptist associations.

The Second Great Awakening ( which actually began in 1790 ) was primarily an American revivalist movement and resulted in substantial growth of the Methodist and Baptist churches.

Former followers of John the Baptist probably joined Jesus ' movement.

* 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

* William Miller, Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American religious movement now known as Adventism

The Ahmadiyya movement interpret the Second Coming of Isa prophesied as being that of a person " similar to Isa " ( mathīl-i ʿIsā ) and not his physical return, in the same way as John the Baptist resembled the character of the biblical prophet Elijah in Christianity.

These factors included the continuing Baptist movement in England, English language publications about the Sabbath in the early 1600s, and a relative freedom of religion from state interference in Oliver Cromwell's commonwealth.

* September 15 – American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.

John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, and John Murton were co-founders of the Baptist movement in England, and produced a rich literature advocating liberty of conscience.

The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and, after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.

As an organized movement, it began in the 1920s within Protestant churches — especially Baptist and Presbyterian — in the United States.

An outdoor sermon ( The Preaching of St. John the Baptist ) depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, apparently in 1565, the year before the Beeldenstorm movement began.

* Primitive Baptist, a religious movement seeking to retain or restore early Christian practices

One of the main results of this revivalist movement was the rapid growth of the Baptist Church in America, and North Stonington became a bastion of this denomination in Connecticut.

Apart from the origins of the Baptist movement, the collection has special holdings relating to:

The area was active in the Free Will Baptist movement in the 19th century, and the Smithville Seminary, a Free Baptist institution, was nearby.

It originated in the Patterson stadium also known as " The Sugar Dome " as Dalton Hilliard led the Lumberjacks to the Louisiana State Championship game in 1979 where they lost to John Curtis 28-0. The Lumberjacks went to the Louisiana State Championship game on December 10, 2010, but lost to Parkview Baptist 24-20.

Redbird originated with the settlement by the family of E. L. Barber, who founded the First Baptist Church in 1889.

Those associations and churches that do not trace their lineage through the New Salem ( such as Mountain, Mud River, Twin Creek and others, along with some churches that are in the larger associations ) may have originated in the North District Association ; or else like the Mud River churches originated from the Particular Baptist.

The Schwarzenau Brethren, or German Baptist Brethren as it is known in America, originated in Germany, the outcome of the Radical Pietist ferment of the late 17th and early 18th century.

The Westboro Baptist Church originated as a branch of the East Side Baptist Church in Topeka, established in 1931.

When it originated, the Southwide Baptist Fellowship was almost identical in teaching and outlook as the core of Independent Baptist Fundamentalism.

The regional Union Baptist Association, which had originated the university proposal, built the institution, chartered by the Republic of Texas Congress.

Reverend Joshual Corder, a Baptist minister, gathered a few citizens of Southern sympathies, to call on Jones and plead with him to spare the structure ; ;

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).

File: Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon ') ( c. 1499 – 1500 )

In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice Baptism by Immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

The bread and " fruit of the vine " indicated in Matthew, Mark and Luke as the elements of the Lord's Supper are interpreted by many Baptists as unleavened bread ( although leavened bread is often used ) and, in line with the historical stance of some Baptist groups ( since the mid-19th century ) against partaking of alcoholic beverages, grape juice, which they commonly refer to simply as " the Cup ".

Some Baptist churches are closed-Communionists ( even requiring full membership in the church before partaking ), with others being partially or fully open-Communionists.

It is rare to find a Baptist church where The Lord's Supper is observed every Sunday ; most observe monthly or quarterly, with some holding Communion only during a designated Communion service or following a worship service.

In Christianity, the New Testament describes how both Jesus and John the Baptist are compared with Elijah, and on some occasions, thought by some to be manifestations of Elijah, and Elijah appears with Moses during the Transfiguration of Jesus.

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

This passage corresponds closely with the canonical John 1: 19-30, except that in that passage, the words are spoken by John the Baptist ( in the Qur ' an ; Yahya ibn Zakariya ) and refer to Jesus.

The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

In this view, Luke might have originally started at 3: 1, with John the Baptist.

There is a broad disagreement over chronology between Matthew, Mark and Luke on one hand and John on the other: all four agree that Jesus ' public ministry began with an encounter with John the Baptist, but Matthew, Mark and Luke follow this with an account of teaching and healing in Galilee, then a trip to Jerusalem where there is an incident in the Temple, climaxing with the crucifixion on the day of the Passover holiday.

It begins with the witness and affirmation by John the Baptist and concludes with the death, burial, Resurrection, and post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus.